This book is aimed at cloud system engineers, system administrators, and technical architects who are moving from a virtualized environment to cloud environments. This book assumes that you are familiar with cloud computing platforms, and have knowledge of virtualization, networking, and managing Linux environments.
Kevin Jackson
Kevin Jackson is married and has three children. He is an experienced IT professional working with business and enterprises of all sizes at Rackspace as an OpenStack and private cloud specialist. Kevin has been working with OpenStack since early 2011 and has extensive experience of various flavors of Linux, Unix, and hosting environments. Kevin can be found on Twitter at @itarchitectkev. Kevin authored the first edition and coauthored the second edition of the OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Packt Publishing. Kevin also coauthored OpenStack Foundation's OpenStack Architecture Design Guide during a 5-day book sprint in California.